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Why Does Childlessness Make You Feel Left Behind in Life?
Childlessness can bring a quiet but profound sense of being left behind. This blog explores the experience of feeling outside of a world shaped by parenthood, and the impact this can have on belonging and identity.

Samantha Cooke
May 65 min read


Why Is Mother’s Day So Hard When You Are Childless?
Mother’s Day can be particularly painful for women living with childlessness. This article explores the grief, questions of belonging and complex emotions that the day can bring.

Samantha Cooke
Mar 115 min read


Why Do the Months After Christmas Feel So Difficult When You’re Childless?
For many people living with childlessness, it is not Christmas itself that feels hardest, but the quiet months that follow. When the noise fades and routine returns, grief can surface in unexpected and isolating ways.

Samantha Cooke
Jan 214 min read


Baby Loss and the Wave of Light: Holding Space for Tender Grief
Candles lit for Baby Loss Awareness Week and the Wave of Light - a global movement to honour and remember babies gone too soon. Introduction As Baby Loss Awareness Week comes to a close, people across the world will take part in the Wave of Light this evening, lighting candles at 7pm to honour babies who are no longer with us. For an hour, homes and communities will be filled with a soft, gentle glow, creating a shared moment of remembrance and connection. It is a time that b

Samantha Cooke
Oct 15, 20254 min read


The Shattering Loss of Childlessness
There Once Was a Childless Cat Lady The world may be changing, but for centuries, one question has remained: what are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, and everything nice. That’s what little girls are made of. For generations, these little girls, made of sugar and spice, played with their dolls and dreamed of growing up to meet their Prince Charming, have children, and live happily ever after. But what happens when you don’t arrive at your happily ever after? What happe

Samantha Cooke
Sep 15, 20245 min read


Challenging Societal Constructs: Shake it Off Like Taylor Swift
Introduction Last month, Newsweek published an article titled “Taylor Swift Is Not a Good Role Model.” Her alleged crime? Being unmarried and childless at the age of 34. The opinion piece, written by a man, acknowledges and even admires Swift’s musical talents and business acumen but questions whether her personal life choices are ones “we” want the sisters and daughters of our society to emulate. Despite his assurance that his concerns are rooted in sound reasoning, I believ

Samantha Cooke
Jul 21, 20245 min read
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